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Coursera is an online education company that offers courses, Specializations, and degrees from 150 of the world’s top universities and educational institutions, including Stanford University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, HEC Paris, The National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Indian School of Business. Over 26 million registered learners come to Coursera to take more than 2,000 courses and Specializations in dozens of topics, from business, to technology, to data science, to creative arts. Coursera empowers learners around the world to achieve their career, educational, and personal enrichment goals throughout their lives. Coursera is backed by leading venture capital firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, GSV Capital, International Finance Corporation, Laureate Education Inc., and Learn Capital.

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We commissioned research into the challenges that today’s young professionals face, with a focus on adults aged 22-35 in the United Kingdom. Our results shed light on how concern over career growth and a lack of learning opportunities may impact the life goals of a whole generation.

Online learners are reporting real, tangible career and educational results. This report is based on research conducted by Coursera, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Washington for a paper analyzing the results of a survey of 52,000 Coursera learners that was published in Harvard Business Review.